diff --git a/lib/Cake/Controller/Controller.php b/lib/Cake/Controller/Controller.php
index 68b255fc7..323b762d0 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Controller/Controller.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Controller/Controller.php
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ class Controller extends Object {
  * @var array
  * @link http://book.cakephp.org/view/1231/Pagination
  */
-	public $paginate = array('limit' => 20, 'page' => 1);
+	public $paginate = array('limit' => 20, 'page' => 1, 'maxLimit' => 100);
 
 /**
  * The name of the views subfolder containing views for this controller.
@@ -1068,8 +1068,8 @@ class Controller extends Object {
 			unset($defaults[0]);
 		}
 
-		$options = array_merge(array('page' => 1, 'limit' => 20), $defaults, $options);
-		$options['limit'] = (int) $options['limit'];
+		$options = array_merge(array('page' => 1, 'limit' => 20, 'maxLimit' => 100), $defaults, $options);
+		$options['limit'] = min((int)$options['limit'], $options['maxLimit']);
 		if (empty($options['limit']) || $options['limit'] < 1) {
 			$options['limit'] = 1;
 		}
@@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ class Controller extends Object {
 		} elseif (intval($page) < 1) {
 			$options['page'] = $page = 1;
 		}
-		$page = $options['page'] = (integer)$page;
+		$page = $options['page'] = (int)$page;
 
 		if (method_exists($object, 'paginate')) {
 			$results = $object->paginate(
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Utility/ObjectCollection.php b/lib/Cake/Utility/ObjectCollection.php
index b2a6eb443..e9dd53abe 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Utility/ObjectCollection.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Utility/ObjectCollection.php
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 <?php
 /**
- * Deals with Collections of objects.  Keeping registries of those objects,
- * loading and constructing new objects and triggering callbacks.
- *
- * PHP 5
- *
  * CakePHP(tm) : Rapid Development Framework (http://cakephp.org)
  * Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
  *
@@ -13,11 +8,21 @@
  *
  * @copyright     Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
  * @link          http://cakephp.org CakePHP(tm) Project
- * @package       cake
- * @subpackage    cake.cake.libs.view
- * @since         CakePHP(tm) v 0.10.0.1076
  * @license       MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
  */
+/**
+ * Deals with Collections of objects.  Keeping registries of those objects,
+ * loading and constructing new objects and triggering callbacks. Each subclass needs
+ * to implement its own load() functionality.
+ *
+ * All core subclasses of ObjectCollection by convention loaded objects are stored
+ * in `$this->_loaded`. Enabled objects are stored in `$this->_enabled`.  In addition
+ * the all support an `enabled` option that controls the enabled/disabled state of the object
+ * when loaded.
+ *
+ * @package cake.libs
+ * @since CakePHP(tm) v 2.0
+ */
 abstract class ObjectCollection {
 
 /**
diff --git a/lib/Cake/View/Helper.php b/lib/Cake/View/Helper.php
index 25f62f2be..f9d26e447 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/View/Helper.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/View/Helper.php
@@ -105,6 +105,30 @@ class Helper extends Object {
  */
 	protected $_View;
 
+/**
+ * Minimized attributes
+ *
+ * @var array
+ */
+	protected $_minimizedAttributes = array(
+		'compact', 'checked', 'declare', 'readonly', 'disabled', 'selected',
+		'defer', 'ismap', 'nohref', 'noshade', 'nowrap', 'multiple', 'noresize'
+	);
+
+/**
+ * Format to attribute
+ *
+ * @var string
+ */
+	protected $_attributeFormat = '%s="%s"';
+
+/**
+ * Format to attribute
+ *
+ * @var string
+ */
+	protected $_minimizedAttributeFormat = '%s="%s"';
+
 /**
  * Default Constructor
  *
@@ -358,7 +382,7 @@ class Helper extends Object {
 
 			foreach ($options as $key => $value) {
 				if (!isset($exclude[$key]) && $value !== false && $value !== null) {
-					$attributes[] = $this->__formatAttribute($key, $value, $escape);
+					$attributes[] = $this->_formatAttribute($key, $value, $escape);
 				}
 			}
 			$out = implode(' ', $attributes);
@@ -375,30 +399,21 @@ class Helper extends Object {
  * @param string $key The name of the attribute to create
  * @param string $value The value of the attribute to create.
  * @return string The composed attribute.
- * @access private
  */
-	function __formatAttribute($key, $value, $escape = true) {
+	protected function _formatAttribute($key, $value, $escape = true) {
 		$attribute = '';
-		$attributeFormat = '%s="%s"';
-		static $minimizedAttributes = array();
-		if (empty($minimizedAttributes)) {
-			$minimizedAttributes = array_flip(array(
-				'compact', 'checked', 'declare', 'readonly', 'disabled',
-				'selected', 'defer', 'ismap', 'nohref', 'noshade', 'nowrap',
-				'multiple', 'noresize'
-			));
-		}
-
 		if (is_array($value)) {
 			$value = '';
 		}
 
-		if (isset($minimizedAttributes[$key])) {
+		if (is_numeric($key)) {
+			$attribute = sprintf($this->_minimizedAttributeFormat, $value, $value);
+		} elseif (in_array($key, $this->_minimizedAttributes)) {
 			if ($value === 1 || $value === true || $value === 'true' || $value === '1' || $value == $key) {
-				$attribute = sprintf($attributeFormat, $key, $key);
+				$attribute = sprintf($this->_minimizedAttributeFormat, $key, $key);
 			}
 		} else {
-			$attribute = sprintf($attributeFormat, $key, ($escape ? h($value) : $value));
+			$attribute = sprintf($this->_attributeFormat, $key, ($escape ? h($value) : $value));
 		}
 		return $attribute;
 	}
diff --git a/lib/Cake/basics.php b/lib/Cake/basics.php
index 2d23d220d..190deb3cc 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/basics.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/basics.php
@@ -85,12 +85,12 @@
  * Only runs if debug level is greater than zero.
  *
  * @param boolean $var Variable to show debug information for.
- * @param boolean $showHtml If set to true, the method prints the debug data in a screen-friendly way.
+ * @param boolean $showHtml If set to true, the method prints the debug data in a browser-friendly way.
  * @param boolean $showFrom If set to true, the method prints from where the function was called.
  * @link http://book.cakephp.org/view/1190/Basic-Debugging
  * @link http://book.cakephp.org/view/1128/debug
  */
-	function debug($var = false, $showHtml = false, $showFrom = true) {
+	function debug($var = false, $showHtml = null, $showFrom = true) {
 		if (Configure::read('debug') > 0) {
 			$file = '';
 			$line = '';
@@ -116,10 +116,14 @@ TEXT;
 			$template = $html;
 			if (php_sapi_name() == 'cli') {
 				$template = $text;
+			} else {
+				if ($showHtml === null) {
+					$showHtml = true;
+				}
 			}
 			$var = print_r($var, true);
 			if ($showHtml) {
-				$var = str_replace('<', '&lt;', str_replace('>', '&gt;', $var));
+				$var = str_replace(array('<', '>'), array('&lt;', '&gt;'), $var);
 			}
 			printf($template, $file, $line, $var);
 		}
diff --git a/lib/Cake/tests/cases/basics.test.php b/lib/Cake/tests/cases/basics.test.php
index b3b028cd4..7251ab82d 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/tests/cases/basics.test.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/tests/cases/basics.test.php
@@ -687,12 +687,20 @@ class BasicsTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		$this->assertPattern($pattern, $result);
 
 		ob_start();
-			debug('<div>this-is-a-test</div>', true);
+			debug('<div>this-is-a-test</div>');
 		$result = ob_get_clean();
 		$pattern = '/(.+?tests(\/|\\\)cases(\/|\\\)basics\.test\.php|';
 		$pattern .= preg_quote(substr(__FILE__, 1), '/') . ')';
 		$pattern .=	'.*line.*' . (__LINE__ - 4) . '.*&lt;div&gt;this-is-a-test&lt;\/div&gt;.*/s';
 		$this->assertPattern($pattern, $result);
+
+		ob_start();
+			debug('<div>this-is-a-test</div>', false);
+		$result = ob_get_clean();
+		$pattern = '/(.+?tests(\/|\\\)cases(\/|\\\)basics\.test\.php|';
+		$pattern .= preg_quote(substr(__FILE__, 1), '/') . ')';
+		$pattern .=	'.*line.*' . (__LINE__ - 4) . '.*\<div\>this-is-a-test\<\/div\>.*/s';
+		$this->assertPattern($pattern, $result);
 	}
 
 /**
diff --git a/lib/Cake/tests/cases/libs/controller/controller.test.php b/lib/Cake/tests/cases/libs/controller/controller.test.php
index 411df3309..19fa1c2f0 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/tests/cases/libs/controller/controller.test.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/tests/cases/libs/controller/controller.test.php
@@ -751,6 +751,45 @@ class ControllerTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		$this->assertEqual($Controller->ControllerPaginateModel->extraCount, $expected);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * testPaginateMaxLimit
+ *
+ * @return void
+ * @access public
+ */
+	function testPaginateMaxLimit() {
+		$request = new CakeRequest('controller_posts/index');
+		$request->params['pass'] = $request->params['named'] = array();
+
+		$Controller = new Controller($request);
+
+		$Controller->uses = array('ControllerPost', 'ControllerComment');
+		$Controller->passedArgs[] = '1';
+		$Controller->params['url'] = array();
+		$Controller->constructClasses();
+
+		$Controller->passedArgs = array('contain' => array('ControllerComment'), 'limit' => '1000');
+		$result = $Controller->paginate('ControllerPost');
+		$this->assertEqual($Controller->params['paging']['ControllerPost']['options']['limit'], 100);
+
+		$Controller->passedArgs = array('contain' => array('ControllerComment'), 'limit' => '1000', 'maxLimit' => 1000);
+		$result = $Controller->paginate('ControllerPost');
+		$this->assertEqual($Controller->params['paging']['ControllerPost']['options']['limit'], 100);
+
+		$Controller->passedArgs = array('contain' => array('ControllerComment'), 'limit' => '10');
+		$result = $Controller->paginate('ControllerPost');
+		$this->assertEqual($Controller->params['paging']['ControllerPost']['options']['limit'], 10);
+
+		$Controller->passedArgs = array('contain' => array('ControllerComment'), 'limit' => '1000');
+		$Controller->paginate = array('maxLimit' => 2000);
+		$result = $Controller->paginate('ControllerPost');
+		$this->assertEqual($Controller->params['paging']['ControllerPost']['options']['limit'], 1000);
+
+		$Controller->passedArgs = array('contain' => array('ControllerComment'), 'limit' => '5000');
+		$result = $Controller->paginate('ControllerPost');
+		$this->assertEqual($Controller->params['paging']['ControllerPost']['options']['limit'], 2000);
+	}
+
 /**
  * testPaginateFieldsDouble method
  *
@@ -821,6 +860,7 @@ class ControllerTest extends CakeTestCase {
 			'fields' => array(),
 			'order' => '',
 			'limit' => 5,
+			'maxLimit' => 100,
 			'page' => 1,
 			'recursive' => -1,
 			'conditions' => array()
diff --git a/lib/Cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helper.test.php b/lib/Cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helper.test.php
index b30c2a767..ba401fe6e 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helper.test.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helper.test.php
@@ -184,11 +184,41 @@ class TestHelper extends Helper {
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * Html5TestHelper class
+ *
+ * @package       cake
+ * @subpackage    cake.tests.cases.libs.view
+ */
+class Html5TestHelper extends TestHelper {
+
+/**
+ * Minimized
+ *
+ * @var array
+ */
+	protected $_minimizedAttributes = array('require', 'checked');
+
+/**
+ * Allow compact use in HTML
+ *
+ * @var string
+ */
+	protected $_minimizedAttributeFormat = '%s';
+
+/**
+ * Test to attribute format
+ *
+ * @var string
+ */
+	protected $_attributeFormat = 'data-%s="%s"';
+}
+
 /**
  * HelperTest class
  *
  * @package       cake
- * @subpackage    cake.tests.cases.libs
+ * @subpackage    cake.tests.cases.libs.view
  */
 class HelperTest extends CakeTestCase {
 
@@ -809,6 +839,13 @@ class HelperTest extends CakeTestCase {
 				$this->assertEqual($helper->parseAttributes($attrs), $expected, '%s Failed on ' . $value);
 			}
 		}
+		$this->assertEqual($helper->parseAttributes(array('compact')), ' compact="compact"');
+
+		$helper = new Html5TestHelper($this->View);
+		$expected = ' require';
+		$this->assertEqual($helper->parseAttributes(array('require')), $expected);
+		$this->assertEqual($helper->parseAttributes(array('require' => true)), $expected);
+		$this->assertEqual($helper->parseAttributes(array('require' => false)), '');
 	}
 
 /**